Drawn when the artist was studying at the Westminster School of Art and was under the influence of Bernard Meninsky. Rex de C. Nan Kivell told the compiler (May 1963) that he had acquired the drawing from the artist (though the latter had no recollection of this) and had lent it to a mixed exhibition, privately organized, which toured New Zealand in 1935.

Published in:Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, I